Deferred exams and final assessment

If your application for special consideration is successful, you may be granted a deferred exam or alternative assessment task.

A deferred exam is an exam postponed to a later date. These are held during the official deferred exam period, unless your faculty emails your Monash account with an alternative time, giving five University working days' notice.

If you are granted a deferred exam, your unit grade will be DEF (deferred exam) in the Web Enrolment System (WES). It is your responsibility to be available to sit a deferred exam at the scheduled time.

How this affects your results

Until you complete your deferred exam or supplementary exam/assessment,you will have an incomplete result. An incomplete result does not satisfy unit prerequisites. This could prevent you from enrolling in some units. Please check your enrolment carefully and consult your faculty.

Once you complete a deferred exam or final assessment, the result of that assessment will be final.

your circumstances, for which you were granted a deferred exam or assessment, are unresolved

To apply

Apply in writing within two working days of the day or your deferred final assessment task

Provide evidence of your circumstances with supporting documents

Submit your application to the faculty teaching the unit

The faculty teaching the unit will arrange a meeting with you to consider your application. You can take a support person to that meeting. The rescheduled exam or assessment task must occur within 12 months.

Unable to complete a deferred final exam or assessment

If you can't sit your deferred final assessment, due to extreme circumstances beyond your control, you can apply for a WI (withdrawn incomplete) grade. WI is not a passing grade (due to incomplete unit requirements) but unlike other fail grades, a WI will not be included on your Grade Point Average (GPA) or Weighted Average Mark (WAM).

To apply

Apply in writing to your managing faculty within 20 University working days from when your result is published

Provide evidence that your circumstances were extreme and either:

were unforeseeable when you were granted a deferred final assessment

occurred after the deferred final assessment was granted.

Acceptable reasons include:

serious illness requiring hospitalisation

death of an immediate family member

obligations to emergency or military service

extreme circumstances of similar severity.

Acceptable evidence includes:

record of hospital admission

police reports

notification of obligations to emergency or military service.

Your faculty will assess your application and notify you of the result.